Despite the rising costs of raw materials and imports, the fertiliser availability for the 2026 kharif season remains ‘comfortable’, with stocks exceeding 51% of the total requirement of 39 million tonne (MT), a fertiliser ministry official said on Monday. “There is a small shortfall which we hope to cover in the coming months,” Aparna S Sharma, additional secretary, department of fertiliser, said here. Domestic fertiliser production is around 80,000 tonne per day, with output since the onset of the West Asia crisis at 8.62 MT – 5.21 MT (urea), 0.7 MT (di-ammonium phosphate), 1.73 MT (NPK) and 0.97 MT (SSP). This is slightly below the 9.3 MT recorded in the year-ago period.